About Kristin
Kristin DePolo is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting strain, and attention-related concerns. She writes plans that fit each person's life and uses straightforward language during sessions. Kristin aims to be calm and nonjudgmental so clients feel heard and respected.
Kristin brings 12 years of experience working with teens and adults as well as individual parents facing family conflict. She has supported people dealing with trauma, mood and personality concerns, chronic illness, and substance use histories.
Background and approach
Her background includes work across settings with complex presentations and overlapping challenges. In session she draws on practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and habits. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people clarify what matters and take committed steps toward those values.
Kristin favors simple, teachable skills so clients can try techniques between sessions. She combines client-centered listening with elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or intense stress make day-to-day functioning harder. That mix lets her tailor conversations and skill practice to the moment and the person.
Kristin also addresses parenting concerns, blended family stress, caregiver strain, and issues that arise around pregnancy and aging. Kristin practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English. She supports people who want down-to-earth guidance, step-by-step coping strategies, and a partner who will help them set realistic goals and track progress over time.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skill building
Kristin uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors through simple step-by-step practice. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood, and daily routines that get in the way of functioning.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. ACT can be useful for people struggling with avoidance, chronic stress, or motivation challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kristin will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try tools that fit day-to-day life. She treats therapy as a team effort and adjusts methods based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be a quicker check-in with less bandwidth, and chat or messaging lets people use short updates or practice skills between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay connected when in-person visits are hard to arrange.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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